Anonymous
France 路 07/21/2025
Discovery of the work
A few years ago, I asked the priest who was preparing us for marriage in a famous Abbey in the South of France about reading the work of Maria Valtorta. Skeptical, he gave me his permission; then I asked the opinion of the Exorcist Priest from my city at the time, he told me "If Padre Pio recommended it..go for it! I myself have read 1/3 of the work, I see nothing that contradicts the dogma!". I discovered Maria Valtorta while watching a video of Sister Emmanuelle Maillard from the Community of Beatitudes!
Impact on faith
These books have opened a bridge to the Bible that I had set aside...the more I read, the more I returned to the passages of the Old or New Testament; everything became coherent, clear; it's as if the Holy Spirit gave meaning to the fragments of the Bible that I did not understand...and the more I reread the Volumes, the more I realize that the Bible is a past-present-future book and that the words of Christ still speak to me even if I have read the same words 5 times!!! It's inexhaustible...
Graces received
The rediscovery and deepening of the Word of God have anchored God in my daily life and prayer and the sacraments have taken a central importance that I try to honor despite my miseries... Aspects of my past life have been illuminated by the words and visions described by Maria Valtorta, I have meditated on them with the Bible and I can say that it is the reading book of my life... The Bible, it's God... This book is God's work for the little ones! You must still have a child's heart, I believe, to accept and understand it. You must be able to believe that Nothing is Impossible for God! That all the books of the Earth will not be enough to tell what Jesus did on Earth as St John says!!!
What would you say to someone hesitating to discover this work?
Try...God speaks to everyone in a different way; maybe it's this way, maybe it's another...listen closely and seek God incessantly.